Device for handling amusement-cars.



No. 895,946. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908.

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMU$EMENT CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.13,1908.

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S A. P. BIAVATI.

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMUSEMENT CARS.

APVPLIGATION FILED APR. 13,1908.

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ATTORNEYS WITNESSES AQHILLE FIBIAVA'TI, OF FREE'PQRT, NEW YORK,

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AMUSEMENT-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Application filed April 13, 1908. Serial No. 426,776.

To all whom "it may-concern:

Be it known that I, AcHILLE F. BIAVATI, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Freeport, in the county of Nassau and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Device for Handling Amusement-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to amusement maing drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures, and in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation showing a pair of elevators for lifting the cars, and furthershowing p'qrtions of railroad tracks upon which the cars are adapted toglide; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary section upon the line 22 ofFig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow, and showing the car whenraised and ready to be released from its support in I tively to thetrack.

the elevator and Fig. 3 is a vertical section upon the line 33 of Fig.2, looking in the direction of the arrow,and showing the 'arrangement ofthe supports for automatically holding the car and for guiding the carrela A'framework 4, having the form of a. double tower, is provided withbraces 5, 6, crossing each other, and is further provided withsuit ableroofs 7, having more or less of an ornamental character. The elevatorcars are shown at 58, and are raised and lowered by aid of rods At 10are shown gates throu h which the passengers enter the framewor of theelevator.

At 11 are shown the gates for entering the elevator cars.

Mounted within each car 8 is a pair of rocking beams 12, said rockingbeams being connected by hinges 13 with a floor beam 14. Interposedintermediate of the rocking beams 12, is a third rocking beam 15 ofslightly greater width-than the others. 'Connecting together the rockingbeams 12, 15, are cross These cross beams and the rockbeams 16. ingbeams together constitute a strong platform. Extending upwardly fromthis plat- 3 form are standards 17, and carried by the latter are sidebeams 18, which, of course, move with the platform, being otherwiserigid. A center rail 19 is mounted upon the beam 15. A car 20, having inthis instance the shape of a boat, is provided with a keel portion 21,and journaled within the same are wheels 22, each wheel being providedwith two flanges 23, and running upon the rail 19 in such manner thatthe flanges 23 are disposed upon opposite sides of the same. Mountedupon the sides of the car 20, are brackets 24, and journaled within thelatter are rollers 25, which'cngage the inner faces of the beams 18.

1 Mounted in the bottom of the elevator car is ,a beam 26, andconnecting this beam with the adjacent beam orrail 19, are toggle links27, 28, 29, arranged inpairs, as indicated in Fig. 2, the links of onepair being longer than those of another pair. The ower toggle links aremounted rigidly upon stub shafts 30, 31, 32. Arms 33, 34, 35, aremounted upon these stub shafts, these arms all being "of the samelength, and connected together by a rod 36. This rod is connected withthe lower end of a lever 37, this lever being j ournaled at 38 uponthebeam 12, and being provided with a handle portion 39, whereby thelever and be actuated.

At 40 are rails adapted to be brought into registry with the beams 18,and at 41 is a stationary beam corresponding to the beam 12 and providedwith a rail 42, said last-mentioned rail corresponding in cross sectionwith the rail 19 and. registering therewith whlgn the elevator is intheposition indicated 1n 1g. 2. T

v The operation of my device is as follows: The elevator car being inits lowermost posie tion, the gates 10 are opened, and the assengersenter the elevator car and take t eir' seats. The gates 10 are nowclosed, and the elevator car lifted in a manner well on erstood in thisart.- Arrivingat the upper level (see upper left-hand port1on of Fig.1), the operator now grasps the handle 39 and draws it to the left,according to Fig. 2. The lever 37 thereu on-forces the rod 36 to theright, turning t e arms 33, 34, 35, and moving the various toggles, asindicated in Fig.

parts connected with it, may- 2. The platform carried by the toggles isthus elevated, the right-hand portion of the platform being raised aconsiderable distance as compared with the central portion thereof,thustilting the car 20. The beams 18 having been alined with the guide rails40 and the rail 19 being likewise 1n alinement with the rail 42, the carsimply runs downwardly by its own gravity. The rollers engaging thebeams 18, or rails 40, kee. the car always in its roper position, an thewheels 22 are unab e to leave the central rail 19 or the central rail42, because of the action'of the flanges 23.

. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

' 1. The combination of an elevator car, a platform mounted therein andmovable relatively thereto, a plurality of se arate. toggle joints, eachconnected with sai elevator car and with said platform, meanscontrollable at will for actuating all of said toggle joints at the sametime, and a car mounted temporarily upon said platform and adapted torun therefrom by its own weight, when said platform is tilted. v

2. The combination of an elevator, provided with a membermovablevertically, rails connected with said member and disposedopposite each other, a car mounted edwith said elevator, a track forsupporting said car, and means for starting said car from said elevatorrelatively to said track.

3. The combination of a stationary track, an elevator car disposedad'acent thereto, a fragmentary track mounte within said elevator'car,means for inclining said fragmentary track, a passenger car no'rmall suported upon said fragmentarytrac ral s carried'by said elevator'car anddisposed on opposite sides of said passenger car, rollers mounted uponsaid passen er car and adapted to engage said rails, other rails mountedfixedly in position and adapted to register with said rails carriedbysaid elevator car, and a track mounted fixedly in osition and 'ada tedto register, with said ragmentary trac carried by said elevator car.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ACH-ILLE F. BIAVATI.

Witnesses:

* M. H. STOERGER,

RUDOLPH ,SOH'USTERQ

